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Existing-home sales and contract signings both stumbled in July as stubbornly low levels hampered the housing market and kept home prices rising at a robust pace. Visit https://www.nar.realtor/videos/housing-minute to watch a 53-second, animated video from the National Association of Realtors® summarizing how the housing market performed in July, as well as a regional breakdown of… Continue Reading An Animated Recap of July Housing Activity

One indicator of the strength of homebuying demand is the number of client home tours. REALTORS® reported that, on average, they took about six clients on a home tour in July 2017, up from four clients one year ago, according to NAR’s July 2017 REALTORS® Confidence Index Survey. However, even as more clients went on… Continue Reading REALTORS® Reported More Home Tours but Fewer Offers in July 2017

Foot traffic, the number of times a property is shown to potential homebuyers, is a strong indicator of housing demand and future home sales. Each month NAR Research publishes a diffusion index for foot traffic, but recent efforts have expanded on this work to create other indexes. NAR Research is likely to continue to exploit… Continue Reading Tracing the Beaten Path

Lee Davenport By Lee Davenport When you need to look something up, what do you do?  Many of us will grab our phone, laptop, or computer and do a Google or Bing search. But wait. You just realized that does not work on social media. Now what? Will you have to scroll through zillions of… Continue Reading Using Hashtags in Your Online Marketing

The following is promotional copy for a Quicken Loans webinar on how real estate professionals can use data mining in their marketing. REALTOR® Magazine is promoting the webinar because it believes the content might be useful to its readers, but it did not participate in creating the webinar. Patrick Chism In one of the most… Continue Reading Sponsor Webinar: Using Big Data to Create Effective Marketing Strategies

Selling a home and simultaneously purchasing another property can be agitating. Ideally, the seller of the property will also have found another residence by the time the buyer is moving in, but this may not always happen because of delays in contract settlement.[1] In these cases, a seller may request to enter into a leaseback… Continue Reading Nearly 20 Percent of Sellers Move Out After Leaseback Period

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Index shows that U.S. prices of single-family homes continue to rise. The national index level in June reached a new high and is up 5.8 percent from a year earlier.  But what does this mean for homeowners? Home prices affect the wealth of homeowners. As the price of housing increases,… Continue Reading Instant Reaction: June Owners’ Gains Forecast

The process of selling a home is often emotionally taxing, but selling a home with children in the mix can be a downright nerve-wracking experience. The National Association of REALTORS®’ 2017 Moving With Kids Report explores the one-of-a-kind adventure of trying to sell a home with kids. For sellers with children under 18, urgency is the name… Continue Reading Sellers With Children Want to Sell NOW!

Major changes are coming to housing finance. The Federal Reserve is about to unwind a program that has held mortgage rates low for several years. How will this change impact housing? Lenders weighed-in in NAR’s most recent Survey of Mortgage Originators. Operation Twist In the wake of the great recession, the housing market hit historic… Continue Reading Fed’s Change Means Higher, More Volatile Rates

The National Association of Realtors® released the 2017 Member Safety Report on Monday.  The survey asked Realtors® from across the country how safe they feel while on the job, and nearly 3,200 answered questions about their personal experiences and the safety procedures and materials provided by their brokerage. For the third year in a row,… Continue Reading REALTOR® Safety Survey: Majority Continue to Feel Safe on the Job